It may be hard to believe what the Met Office tells us, that we’re about to get an entire month’s rainfall in a single day, but the summer holidays are well and truly upon us. So it’s time to start packing the bags and stocking up on the latest tech toys that you can take on holiday with you.
If you stay here in the soggy old UK …

Nice list

I wonder if someone makes a turbine you can attach to your car. I do a lot of motorway driving... The backpack is great for nerds with bad backs (like me), and I *must* have one of those hands-free cameras for when I go snowblading this year.

Wot no powermonkey?

I can't believe it didn't make the list. Any travelling gadget fan surely would like to replace the bundle of different chargers and international adapters with a pocket-sized power module that fits pretty much everything and can solar-charge itself.

@Nic

Only all of those gadgets perform their respective roles better. I personally would rather have my satnav run on a separate battery to my only means of communication. Ditto with listening to music, or using it as a torch.

@Greg

@ blackworx

Actually those Sennheisers are a really nice set of headphones for day to day use, if you're not judging them by the standards of a studio set. The problem with any set of headphones, in my experience, that actually hold themselves in my ears (I'm thinking Etymotic Research, Shure et al) is that they get dirty over time and ongoing maintenance costs aren't what most people want from their headphones. The main gripe I have with the PXC300s is the battery compartment. It's possibly the least ergonomic design that they could have come up with...!

Well here's mine

The last boy scout

Where in your list is the Swiss Army knife with wind up satnav, self sharpening blade, corkscrew, bottle opener,DVD player and solar/wind up microwave cooker. Without one of these I am NOT going out into the wilderness.